--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <feste37@> wrote:
> >
> > I don't think it's much use to tell a poor person that he or she 
> is better off than 
> > many people were 100 years ago. The poor do not need history 
> lessons. 
> > What really lies behind Shemp's claim that poverty in the US has 
> been 
> > eliminated is a reactionary political agenda that is typical of 
> the Bush 
> > administration.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> When I read stuff like this about the Bush Administration, I don't 
> know whether to laugh or cry.
> 
> feste37, have you ever looked at the federal government budget?  If 
> you had you would know that the Bush Administration is spending MORE 
> of our money than LESS...even on all the varied social programs and 
> entitlement programs that the federal government doles out.
> 
> It seems to me that you are buying into the stereotype of the Bush 
> Administration as some sort of conservative cut-back-on-government 
> right-wingers when they are the exact opposite...that's why many 
> conservatives are so unhappy with them.
> 
> We're now over $2.4 trillion in our annual spending as a federal 
> government...WAY more than under Clinton.
> 
> It's people like ME who want to cut back on all those social 
> programs, NOT people like Bush.
> 
> 
 It always kills me that newspeak defines a 'cut' as a reduction in
the rate of growth in the budget. Just another subtlety of the age of
enlightenment, I guess. 

JohnY





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